Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Volume 3T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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... nature , that he is not a fincere friend to the interefts either of civil or of religious liberty ; and that he is not a minister in whom the people , in any great question refpecting the rights of men , can place any rational ...
... nature , that he is not a fincere friend to the interefts either of civil or of religious liberty ; and that he is not a minister in whom the people , in any great question refpecting the rights of men , can place any rational ...
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... nature , which at present disgrace our sta- tute books , and which are equally hostile to the interefts of truth and reason , and to the common rights of mankind . AMONG other important objects , which would be proper to engage the ...
... nature , which at present disgrace our sta- tute books , and which are equally hostile to the interefts of truth and reason , and to the common rights of mankind . AMONG other important objects , which would be proper to engage the ...
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... nature of offences , and to the degrees of guilt , can be doubted by no man of equity or humanity , by whom the fub- ject shall be investigated . Indeed , many of our penal statutes , from their fanguinary nature , are certainly in a ...
... nature of offences , and to the degrees of guilt , can be doubted by no man of equity or humanity , by whom the fub- ject shall be investigated . Indeed , many of our penal statutes , from their fanguinary nature , are certainly in a ...
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... nature : it was in- tended for the circulation , at the expence of the members , of many books , which few others would be at the expence of buying ; and which might lie on the hands of the booksellers , to the great • loss of an useful ...
... nature : it was in- tended for the circulation , at the expence of the members , of many books , which few others would be at the expence of buying ; and which might lie on the hands of the booksellers , to the great • loss of an useful ...
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... nature or importance of their society . Whatever was done respecting the Revo lution in France in the Revolution fociety of London , was done in the moft open and public manner ; and any information concerning the fociety might have ...
... nature or importance of their society . Whatever was done respecting the Revo lution in France in the Revolution fociety of London , was done in the moft open and public manner ; and any information concerning the fociety might have ...
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Page 338 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Page 336 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the...
Page 338 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 38 - That in case the Crown and imperial dignity of this Realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this Kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 338 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 339 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant. SAM. JOHNSON.
Page 378 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 379 - At the same time, some other hour of the day might be taught them the rules of arithmetic, and, soon after, the elements of geometry, even playing, as the old manner was.
Page 422 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Page 167 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.